Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2007 18:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Several months ago, the Fedora Board (in consultation with Red Hat Engineering) decided to increase the length of time that Fedora releases are supported, in terms of updates. This decision was retroactively applied to Fedora Core 5, allowing it to remain a fully maintained release for several months longer than it would have under the old policy. Fedora Core 5 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday June 29th, 2007."
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RE[2]: You lose users with that attitude ...
by siimo on Fri 4th May 2007 00:10
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RE[3]: You lose users with that attitude ...
by marc on Fri 4th May 2007 03:12
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A distro can't be everything to everyone.
You have to pick a target market and stick to it.
I am a firm believer in Pareto's 80/20 Rule. Develop your product or service to address the needs of 80% of your target. If you try to meet the needs of the other 20%, you will go bankrupt.
If we lose people because of the design approach behind Fedora, that's fine. They are probably folks that should not have used Fedora in the first place. And...importantly, they probably wouldn't be Ubuntu users either.
As I noted above with respect to FL, you can't have it both ways. There are not enough resources.
Debian is in trouble because they were at the other end of the spectrum. Their philosophy was "it will be ready when it is ready and not before". They were way behind the development curve relative to today's marketplace. In that respect, they were not addressing the needs of the majority of their potential user base.
In response to that vacuum we have Fedora and Ubuntu.